No Honey. Raptors (including Owls) are the messengers of God. Don't be creeped... its the center of tolerance. They are dinosaur-born. The heirs of the very primeval, before we were a drip of slime on out mother's thigh.Owls are night predators.. and so get the reputation of harbringers of death ( a lot of deaths happen at night), and fortellers of the future. Its not fair. They are just big birds who like to eat mice.

I was charmed by the thread on birds on the playa. Seagulls, etc... no owls. Owls need a certain population of prey.

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Sunbeam56 wrote:No Honey. Raptors (including Owls) are the messengers of God. Don't be creeped... its the center of tolerance. They are dinosaur-born. The heirs of the very primeval, before we were a drip of slime on out mother's thigh.Owls are night predators.. and so get the reputation of harbringers of death ( a lot of deaths happen at night), and fortellers of the future. Its not fair. They are just big birds who like to eat mice.

I was charmed by the thread on birds on the playa. Seagulls, etc... no owls. Owls need a certain population of prey.

Y'know, it's bad enough that parents allow their young kids to run out in front of them while on a crosswalk, but that... that's the kind of stupidity that should lose you custody of your children.

That stupidity could kill your children!!

So many people do not realize that they are essentially invisible until the vehicle is 30-40 feet away. (especially in the apparent conditions of that Gif)

They were crossing the road at what looks like a legit crosswalk. So, technically, they were in the right... (being right and dead is kinda pointless)

I, personally, would never cross a road (in those conditions) unless I knew I could be seen and had enough time to get across before the next vehicle.

The stopping distance looked to be about 40% greater than the reach of the headlights. With incoming traffic and it being what looks like pitch black, spotting anyone on the side or middle of the road - in time to stop is very low. (Studded winter tires might increase the stopping odds. I certainly would not gamble my children on that...)

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